For this local company, it is easy being green. Award-winning industrial firm Plantex (from the words “plant” and “extract”) shows that beyond income generation, choosing to be green can also be an advocacy that has the power to preserve nature and better the lives of people at the same time.

Having grown from backyard operations in 2003, Plantex Solutions Manufacturing Corp.’s household and homecare products are derived from indigenous materials ordinarily regarded as “waste” like overripe fruits and vegetables, as well as banana trunks, bark, and peelings.